Titans owner Bud Adams, center, talks with coach Jeff Fisher, left, and general manager Floyd Reese in August 2000, seven months after the Titans lost to the Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV.

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As longtime general manager of the Titans, Floyd Reese was the man responsible for assembling the talent that produced the most memorable stretch since the team moved from Texas to Tennessee.

The Titans went to a Super Bowl, two AFC Championship Games and made four playoff appearances from 1999-2003, a five-year period that remains the high point in Nashville sports history.

It might never have happened if Titans owner Bud Adams hadn't changed Reese's course in the NFL in 1990. Reese, an assistant coach at the time, had decided to leave the Oilers franchise to join Jerry Glanville, who was ...